Legal Resourcing
For 20 years, Belgrave has been working with top law firms. We have placed many heavy hitting ‘names,’ particularly in the restructuring, distressed debt and recovery market. Knowing the real rainmakers predicates success.
The world around us is transforming – fast. With intense competition squeezing profit margins hiring must be effective. This means finding the real rainmakers who deliver the promised book. Our Rainmakery app is the only tool in the market that brings financial certainty and therefore clarity to rainmaker hiring. This ensures we cherry pick the best.
The Rise of Legal Portfolio Careers
Over the last 20 decades we have seen the demise of a job for life. The career demise of our time will be the full-time job. The ‘in-vogue’ way of working for lawyers will be juggling a legal career portfolio comprising various jobs, gigs, start-ups, volunteering and more.
Law firms that embrace flexi careers and virtual working are already ahead of the curve. Law firms of the future will have to keep adapting to accommodate lawyers (and clients) as they shape-shift into varied and interesting projects reflecting their skills and curiosity. This is a great opportunity for law firms. Having a more mobile workforce means you can upscale or downscale as suits, which keeps costs down. We can not only source your flexi teams but can put together a Life Purpose Benefits Package to offer to your contracting lawyers, that will keep them wedded to you.
Hiring With Impact
During the hiring process, firms factor in reputation, business book and personality but rarely consider a candidate’s working behaviour and the impact that will make to the firm. We want to ensure that partners work effectively in their new environment. this is rarely about operating in a silo. Individuals whose natural working proclivities do not fit well into a team, are unlikely to empower others or be impactful. Teams that work well together stay together – which explains why team hires tend to be more successful than solitary hires.
Our GC Index team assessment* measures a team’s natural working proclivities. It shows the preferred working behaviour needed to balance the team and be effective. This ‘marriage value’ is what creates a stand-out team that powers upwards with impact.
Law Firms Pulling Together Effortlessly
The challenges ahead of our world are profound, and it is more important than ever that law firms are effective and impactful. This means understanding your firm’s working proclivities to ensure your firm is in balance and pulling together with passion.
By creating a GC Index organisation Map*, we can measure your firm’s efficiency so enabling the Executive to refine and improve the firm’s effectiveness. Small changes can make a tremendous impact to the bottom line. Simply bringing out a team’s hidden strengths or moving assistants into different teams could help drive profits up, create boundless energy as well as improve the cultural well-being of the organisation. We can also isolate thye individuals within your organisation who have the natural skills to make a game changing difference that could place you ahead of the competition.
Remote Working With Impact
COVID-19 has left law firms in unchartered waters, having to manage fragmented, virtual teams, whilst relying solely on remote working to drive business forward. As these challenges have arisen almost overnight law firms have had to source effective tools.
Understanding this new way of working will be part of our future. It requires a strategic understanding of everyone’s limitations, strengths and roles to ensure teams are effective. Impactful Remote Working powered by GC Index* can measure this. Pulling together is vital to adapt to a new alternate reality, or in fact, a constant stream of new realities. In times of exponential change, operating at the optimum level is not just a ‘nice to have’, it is essential to survive.
Future Proofing & Innovation Coaching
The disruption to the legal market is not a temporary ‘blip’, rather a transformatory process that will bring new winners and losers. Change is unsettling as it involves uncertainty, loss of control and the shifting of power. – we can give you control back, by strategising around it.
Future proofing and Innovation coaching (FPIC) is an empowering tool for law firms. It enables partners to take control by directly creating solutions that future proof their team which positively affects the firm. FPIC not only ensures future profit streams will keep powering forward, but the team’s future is ring-fenced. From a broader perspective, embracing an innovation mindset improves the internal culture, gives an increased sense of security, creates unique USPs that support recruitment campaigns and even encourages future investment into the firm.
About Us
Nathelie Tudberry is the founding and sole Director of Belgrave Consulting. After leaving university she worked as a solicitor in top City with top firms (now Dentons LLP and Pinsent Masons LLP) for a number of years before setting up Belgrave in 1998. She was one of the first to appreciate the merits of working without a retainer and introduced the ‘success only’ search concept into the legal headhunting market. She grew the business with a focus on maintaining niche expertise which she felt added considerable value to law firms. Although she has expertise in many markets, she has built a ‘name’ in the corporate recovery/restructuring practice area. Nathelie has also been coaching partners for many years.
